I’ve been playing around with making boxes out of old boxes. I plan on using them to protect Tinysaurs during shipping.

The design was done in QCAD, and inexpensive CAD program. I started using QCAD after I got frustrated with Corel Draw. QCAD has a steep-ish learning curve. Here’s what I did to get the irregular octagonal shape. Command-line commands are in italics:

Make a rectangle to the desired exterior dimensions (3×2 in this case) linerectangle